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From today, gamers can experience the blood-thirsty team-based
online multiplayer action of Nosgoth as the game’s Closed
Beta phase commences. Available on Steam, players take part in
asymmetrical, ranged versus melee battles as both Humans and
Vampires fight in a dark and brutal fantasy world.

Included in the Closed Beta phase is the new Siege game mode. In
Siege, Humans must capture specific locations and keep them safe
from Vampires, while the Vampires must satisfy their bloodlust and
hunt down their Human opponents.

Nosgoth will be updated continually throughout Closed Beta, with
future additions including new maps, modes and character classes,
plus new weapons, abilities and skins, and more.

Developed by Psyonix, Nosgoth is a unique team-based
player-versus-player game pitting together a variety of brutal
Human and Vampire characters in a fight for survival. Created
as a competitive free-to-play title in order to break down barriers
between the creators and the players, Nosgoth doesn’t include
weapons, items or abilities that are inherently better (aka
supremacy goods). All items in the Nosgoth in-game store are
side-grades not upgrades to create a fair game experience based
purely on skill.